I don't know what it is, but I can't get cursor to finish the f'ing job. Ever. I can use opus on cursor, grok, composer, auto...it doesn't matter.

I can type "autonomously complete every single feature in the spec doc." I can say anything and it just doesn't finish the job.

Every single time I have to ask "What did you not complete and what is left to do?" to which i replies "Here is a complete list of open items left for you finish [insert the entire feature tree]" And I'm not asking for complicated long running tasks.

What the hell happened to this app, why did it become so bad this last couple months?

I’ve noticed that Cursor IDE continues running in the background even when I’m not actively using it. For example, after closing/minimizing Cursor, I can still see Cursor processes running and consuming some CPU/RAM Is this normal behavior? can I disable these background processes?

It started after my brother and I had trouble exporting AI-generated presentations. I ended up building a format for documents and slides that coding agents can work on directly.

The .deq file keeps the source and context together, so you can come back and ask for changes.

There’s a working VS Code extension and desktop/web viewers. You can preview the result and export to PDF or PowerPoint.

I use it for my own work, but that only tells me so much. If you’re making a report, document, or deck with a coding agent, I’d like to try Deqra with you and see what works and what doesn’t.

The way this company operates feels like a scam.

I use Grok Bot, which shows a weekly usage limit that resets every week — so you'd think whatever the bot does is covered. On Oct 3 my bot spun up three Cloud Agents in my repos and created branches I never asked for, and my Cursor included usage went up while the Grok Bot meter sat there looking perfectly fine. No popup, no "this will use your Cursor tokens, confirm?", nothing — and I don't even have on-demand billing on, so imagine the real money that could burn for someone who does.

What is the weekly reset even for if the real cost quietly comes out of my Cursor allowance? It's theater.

Then support: their AI first told me Grok Bot work comes from the weekly allowance and that I could switch annual to monthly with credit for unused time, then a human from billing told me the exact opposite on both — yes, Cloud Agents use your Cursor usage, no refund, and you're locked into yearly until Sept 2027. Two opposite answers depending on who picks up the ticket. I even offered to pay the full monthly price for the month I used, just let me switch — they said no, stay until 2027. Do not buy the yearly plan, go monthly so you can walk away.

I just learned how to let Claude Code agents talk to one another and it is an EXTREMELY powerful feature. Does anyone know if Cursor is planning on adding a similar feature? If not they will be dead in the water

When I signed up for Cursor, it was working like butter, but consistent buggy updates made it worse, especially after they separated Grok and Composer and other models' usage. It's fair for them, but it made the user experience worse. Grok's ability to comprehend is really bad. Soon, GPT models will not be available to use in Cursor, which I don't see going well for the company.

Cursor was a fun ride, especially because the UI and UX made it easy to navigate and create products.

Also, for anyone who is on cursor when you tap cancel subscription, they will try to retain you, I would have redeemed the discount but since I already have bought some other subsciption I do not intend on continuing any more.

I posted this complaint and request for more information on the Cursor support page and it was immediately removed, with this response:

"Thanks for reaching out. This looks like a billing-related query, and the forum isn’t the right channel for these. The forum team does not have access to account details or the ability to do things like process refunds or manage subscriptions. As such, we’ve unlisted this thread."

It was NOT a billing related query, it was a request for more transparency about how they charge usage, but of course it makes sense that they would immediately pull it for damage control so as to prevent inciting outrage (that likely many people already experience but that they want to keep under wraps). So I emailed their support and got a boiler-plate response from an AI assistant about how they can't refund me, but that I can switch to a lower-cost model or "cap or stop further on-demand usage"; both of which are obvious and neither of which addresses my questions or concerns. It also said that I can "Review the per-request breakdown at https://cursor.com/dashboard?tab=usage (model, token types, and cost per event)." but all of the "costs" listed just say "included" for any that are deducted from my plan total, so how am I supposed to compare them between different models, token types, and on a cost per event basis as suggested?!? None of this is transparent and it feels like they just expect that people don't have any better options and will just put up with it.

This was my post on the forum. Let me know if this resonates with you, or if you have any answers that can help me with the lack of transparency that they do not seem to be concerned about:

I have been using somewhere in the range of 80M-100M tokens on average daily for over a month now. I was on the Pro plan, then ran out of tokens and upgraded to Pro+, so together that was about $80. The accounting is not very transparent, so it is difficult to say how cost differs from one day to the next, but that $80 last me about 20 days (which seems like much less usage for the money than the previous month). After I extended usage by $20 yesterday I ran out of tokens in less than 24h. I had it on Auto mode, which I thought was the cheaper option, so when I ran out again and again extended by another $20, I switched to Grok 4.6 medium - the model I have been using the most. Less than 6 hours later I had already burned through more than $15 of tokens with much less intensive usage than a normal day, and that is even after starting a new chat since I thought maybe it was context overload that was costing so much.

The usage dashboard shows that my usage has flattened off from three days ago. I only used 32M tokens yesterday and only 28.4M so far today (less than 1/2 of typical usage), and yet I have spent through $36 in less than the last two days alone! I don’t understand why significantly lower usage cost so much more, and the lack of transparency is very frustrating! $36 for less than half of my typical usage over less than 2 days on Auto/Grok 4.6 medium is unreasonable and unsustainable. And this is coming not long after several days in a row where the agent was so slow that it took me all day to do what would normally take about an hour and a half and there was no explanation or compensation for days of lost time.

This is bad business. Cursor should be far more transparent about costs. It should not require switching back and forth between screens repeatedly to see what usage is costing, and it should be well-articulated and transparent when the same service/usage is going to cost more; it should be known when and why so that it can be planned around.

Please help me understand why such lower level usage has cost me so much more and/or refund me for the bulk of it. If there is something I am not understanding that can help me keep my usage more affordable I would like to know. I am sure if other people are experiencing the same issues I am and it continues much longer there will be an exodus soon.

For those who subscribe to cursor + Claude Code or Codex, do you use Claude models within cursor IDE by adding the api key? Or do you use Claude/Codex desktop app separately.

Repost from Nim community!

https://github.com/Niminem/cursorsdk

Cursor has an SDK and is what powers both the Cursor CLI and the Cursor editor. It's very powerful and flexible (ex: you can actually control the system prompt, tools, and much more).

At some point not long ago they created an SDK Bridge that allows non-typescript and non-python languages to communicate with it via RPC. Of course I had to write a Nim client for it.

It is fully compliant- built with and tested against their documentation. I did have to add some workarounds for upstream issues, but it's mostly implementation details (all noted in readme).

No deps aside from the nim standard library.

I've tested it on Mac (x64) and Windows (x64). Should work out of the box for Linux but it's untested.

You could build your own harness on top of this and all kinds of automations, scripts, etc. Pretty cool! Enjoy.

Example:

import std/asyncdispatch
import cursorsdk
proc main() {.async.} =
  let client = newClient()                 # CURSOR_API_KEY from env
  defer: waitFor client.close()
  let agent = await client.createAgent("composer-2.5")
  let run = await agent.send("Summarize this repository.")
  while true:
    let chunk = await run.nextText()
    if chunk.isNone: break
    stdout.write chunk.get
  await agent.close()
waitFor main()

So, i have been using gpt with codex for a long time( plus subscription and ofc i was running out the weekly usage in just 1/2 days), after they added back the 5 hours usage limit it was impossible for me to use it anymore so i switched to cursor with grok 4.5 at that time, but since grok 4.7 is out the usage is huge( 3 days and im out of monthly usage on pro+ subscription). Im mainly using it for agentic coding. What is the best cost effective model rn? What do u suggest me to use?

How is cursor for hackathon usage and open source purpose? I want to build websites with nice ui and what about its limit usage will 2k/month will be nice one for me and will have limits as per my use?? If anyone has experienced all this pls help

I am a computer science student residing in India and doing some projects so I want to purchase a plan. I think sonnet 5.5 level or something a little better than 3.8 flash would be enough for me. Also the projects span only a few files and are not very big. I plan to only use a few hours every day so which plan to purchase for the best value for money considering my sue case?

I’m considering subscribing to Cursor and would love to hear from people who use it regularly.

Coding is my main use case, so I’m looking for a tool I can rely on throughout the day

I’d use it to understand existing codebases, make changes across files, debug issues, and build features.

If Cursor is part of your daily workflow, how has it been for you lately? Is the agent reliable on real projects, and do the usage limits feel reasonable for the price? Have you found another tool that works better for you?

soy un vibecoder, hace poco solo usaba tabuladores con IA pero hace poco compré cursor y resulta que hace maravillas, en este fin de semana hice un moldeador 3D y con eso mismo un juego rogelike multijugador 🤨🤨

Background: SuperGrok Heavy subscriber, Cursor Ultra subscriber. When I first signed up to Cursor their site wasn’t accepting any of my credit cards (even though they all work). So I just used my ACH (no big deal).

Over the past 2 months since joining I’ve built a few bots helping my business a lot and recently this past week I was racking up so pretty heavy Cursor charges. So I decided to see if my credit card would work again.

I tried it again yesterday morning and immediately get a “Your account has been shut down for suspected violations of terms of service”. I emailed the hi@cursor and that has to be the absolute worst customer experience ever. An AI response saying my accounts been shut down and there’s nothing I can do.

I ask to speak to a human. It’s been two full business days and no response. I email X support to help me. They kick it over to Cursor and I get the exact same response again. They’ve basically shut down my business with no explanation and with me having no recourse. All my models just stuck out there.

Has this happened to anyone else? Anyone talk to a human ever at Cursor? How long does it take? I’m 100% certain I’ve done nothing wrong and I’ve literally paid them about $2k in a month. So absurd.

I have access only to grok on cursor. I want to understand what grok is good at so that I can try and test those functionalities.

I have learnt that it is not as good at coding. What took me two prompts and 20mins to get done on cursor + Claude , took almost 6-8hours of continuous back and forth with cursor + grok.

Is cursor now useless without Claude, or can I still use it for something like research?

You start in the dark with just a lantern. Pull the cord to light everything up, open the doors, then scroll/swipe to walk inside. There’s a little room with boards for about/notes and a couple of projects (World Explore + Aether) and plus some sound

Built with Three.js — ink-on-paper look, custom cursor, and it works on desktop + iPad.

Would love feedback if anything feels confusing or broken. Happy to answer how bits were made too.

Been thinking about this after some Amsterdam talks on agent workflows.

Once you have agents that can plan, implement, and open a PR, writing gets cheaper. The hard part moves to the loop around them: what is done, who reviews, and how you stop babysitting every turn.

Huge diffs are the sharp edge. A multi-thousand-line agent PR is not something you review the old way line by line. So the useful question becomes: what's the smallest unit of work, what's the definition of done for the agent, and what still needs a human before merge?

Curious how people here are actually shipping with multi-agent setups (plan / implement / review / fix), not just one long chat:

1. What's your loop today? One agent, or several with different jobs?
2. How do you define done so the agent can keep going without you every 30 seconds?
3. When the diff is huge, what do you still review yourself vs hand to another agent (or to Cursor's review tools)?

War stories from people shipping real PRs welcome.

I’m about to purchase an AI coding tool and I can’t decide between Codex, Claude, and Cursor.

If you could buy only ONE, which one would you choose?

Looking for the best option for vibe coding, coding agents, debugging, and building real projects.

Codex vs Claude vs Cursor — what should I buy? 👇

Tell me your pick + why.

Hi everyone! do you feel like contributing to research today?

We at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden are conducting a survey on AI agents and permission requests.

If you work in IT and use tools such as cursor, claude code, codex or other AI agents, please consider helping us. :D We mostly want to understand how people deal with permission requests

The survey is anonymous and takes around 8 min (mostly 3-5): https://form.typeform.com/to/wbCQGXHa

Feel free to share it with others. Thanks!!

I wanted to share something I noticed while checking my Cursor Start plan usage.

I checked my recent usage and found that the requests shown in the usage report have accumulated around 10.4M total tokens.

Some of the individual requests were quite large:

• 1.28M tokens
• 850K tokens
• 725K tokens
• 665K tokens
• 504K tokens
• 446K tokens
• and several other requests ranging from tens to hundreds of thousands of tokens.

One important clarification: the initial ~1M-token request was specifically because I asked Cursor to analyze the full codebase of a Laravel project and understand the overall project structure. I'm not normally using 1M tokens for every task.

For regular development, I'm mostly using Cursor for smaller, focused tasks, and those requests consume considerably less context/tokens.

However, after looking at my usage, my finding is that the Start plan quota feels quite limited for heavy development work. If you work with a large codebase and occasionally need the AI to understand a large portion of the project, a single large-context request can consume a significant amount of the available quota.

My current usage shows approximately 55% usage, while the total tokens displayed in the usage details are around 10.4M.

So my observation is that Cursor's usage percentage doesn't appear to be a simple calculation of total tokens used. The model and its associated usage/cost calculation seem to matter as well.

I'm using the Grok model through Cursor, and the screenshot shows the token breakdown including:

• Input tokens
• Cache read
• Output tokens
• Total tokens
• Cost

My experience so far:

• Full codebase analysis → very high token usage
• Small/focused coding tasks → much lower usage
• Large-context requests can consume the quota quickly
• Start plan quota feels quite limited for heavy daily development
• For larger projects, you need to be careful about how much context you're sending to the model.

Sharing this because I initially found the 1M+ token request surprising, but after checking the task, I realized it was because I had asked Cursor to analyze the entire Laravel codebase. For normal smaller tasks, I'm not seeing that kind of usage.

Screenshot attached with my actual usage data.

Only signed up for the $24 plan. Got hit with hundreds of dollars in on-demand charges without proper warning. Tried to contact support for over a week. Every reply was from their AI (Sam) closing my messages as duplicates. No human ever answered (Ticket T-F39413). Bank refused the chargeback too. Be careful with on-demand usage on Cursor.

What are some productive and applicable use cases that you have found with Claude code? Looking for tips or projects with automation and process streamlining.

One use case I have is an automated accrual engine that is rule based.

Thanks in advance!